Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Plastic Surgery Tax Eyed As Revenue Raiser

Face-lifts, tummy tucks and hair transplants could be hit with a new tax to help finance the trillion-dollar healthcare overhaul plan, according to sources familiar with the Senate talks.

The Senate Finance Committee has discussed imposing a 10 percent excise tax on cosmetic surgery deemed 'unnecessary' [by whom?] for medical purposes.

[Translation: how dare you pay for for just your own surgery - if you can afford that you should be made to pay for someone else's.

'Home of the free.']


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